WILLIAMS, Sir William Fenwick, bart., Canadian soldier, born in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, 4 December, 1800; died in London, England. 26 July, 1883. He was graduated at Woolwich in 1821, and in 1825 became 2d lieutenant of artillery. In 1829 he was transferred to the East Indies, and was stationed in Ceylon, where he secured an appointment in the surveyor-general's office, and superintended the construction of several public works. He travelled much through India, visited Egypt, Syria, and Constantinople, and in 1839 he returned to England mid rejoined his corps. He became captain in 1840, was sent to Turkey, and afterward was British commissioner to the conference at Erzeroum to settle the boundary-line between Persia and Turkey in Asia. In 1848 he was advanced to a lieutenant colonelcy. During the Crimean war, when the Russians had driven the Turks under the walls of Kars, and it was feared that Prince Betutoff might follow up his success in Asia, Colonel Williams was despatched as commissioner, and, going to Kars, proceeded immediately to reorganize the troops. He was appointed a lieutenant-general in the sultan's army under the name of Williams Pacha. After defending Kars for four months against the Russians, he met their commander, General Mouravieff, at the head of a large force, on the heights above the city, and defeated him with great slaughter. Assisted by the Hungarian General Kmety, he did all in his Dower for the defence of Kars; but on 14 November he capitulated. When the war was over, Williams returned to England. The queen created him a baronet, and decorated him with the ribbon of the Order of the Bath. A pension of £1,000 was granted him, and both houses of parliament thanked him. The sultan of Turkey conferred on "the hero of Kars" the rank of a pacha of the highest order, and the decoration of the Medjidieh. Napoleon III. created him a grand officer of the Legion of honor, besides presenting him with a diamond-hilted sabre. Oxford gave him the de-free of D. C. L., the corporation of London invested him with the freedom of the city and a costly sword, and his native province of Nova Scotia gave him a sword costing 150 guineas. In July, 1856, he was given the command of the garrison at Woolwich, and elected to parliament for Calne. At the general elections in the following year he was again returned, but he retired in 1859. in the latter year he was appointed commander-in-chief of the forces in British North America. He was administrator of Canada from 12 October, 1860, to 22 January, 1861, during the absence of the governor-general, Sir Edmund Head. When Lieutenant-Governor Sir Richard Graves Macdonnell left Nova Scotia in 1865, Sir Fenwick Williams administered the government of that province. He was the first lieu-tenant-governor of Nova Scotia after the union of 1867, which post he held three months. On 2 August, 1868, he was made a full general, and in August, 1870, he was appointed governor-general of Gibraltar. That post he resigned in 1875. In October, 1877, he retired from the army, and in 1881 he was appointed constable of the Tower.